Remarkable: What Marko Says About Horner After Being Fired from Red Bull

Sometimes silence is more telling than saying more than a thousand words. Reading Helmut Marko's column on Speedweek - a website of Red Bull Media - one cannot escape the impression that the Austrian advisor understands this like no other.

This is what Marko says about Horner (or not)

"A new chapter begins at Red Bull Racing and the Racing Bulls in Belgium – with Laurent Mekies as team principal at RBR and Alan Permane as team principal at the Racing Bulls."

"Alan, the previous sporting director of the Racing Bulls, was the logical choice for us because we did not want to bring in anyone from outside. We essentially just expanded his previous role."

"Laurent was also the logical choice for the new position for the same reasons: as an internal solution and as someone with extensive experience. Thanks to his diverse activities, including his later work at the FIA ​​and Ferrari, Laurent has everything it takes to lead a top team competently."

Marko the big winner of the power struggle

So far, that's all that Helmut Marko wrote in his column about the change of power at Red Bull Racing and Racing Bulls. Indeed, the advisor does not mention Christian Horner, the team principal and CEO who was sent away last week, with a single word.

No thank you (although the PR team of Red Bull did so on Marko's behalf shortly via social media), no emotional look back at the twenty years together; nothing at all. Is that strange? In light of the events of the last eighteen months, not really.

It was Horner, after all, who tried to get Marko out of the Red Bull organization at the start of the 2024 season, which failed because Max Verstappen threw himself in front of it. But since then, the relationship between the two men who built up Red Bull has definitely come to an end.

With Horner's dismissal, an end has come to this internal fight, with Marko emerging as the glorious winner. More firmly than ever, the Austrian is in the saddle, where he was even partly responsible for appointing Horner's successor. And after eighteen troublesome months, that will surely please Marko.